BYU: Managing to lose way more than their share of close rivalry games

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Aug 22, 2019
1:30:35pm

Indy Coug Loquacious Lummox

BYU: Managing to lose way more than their share of close rivalry games

BYU and Utah have the closest rivalry over the last 25 years, as measured by average margin of victory in each game (min 20 games played).

Of the 15 closest series, BYU has the 2nd worst win% in those games. pic.twitter.com/zL2Yr2dpte
— CougarStats (@CougarStats) August 22, 2019

https://twitter.com/CougarStats/status/1164620678861066240

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BYU: Managing to lose way more than their share of close rivalry games

Indy Coug Loquacious Lummox

8/22/19 1:30pm

RE: BYU: Managing to lose way more than their share of close rivalry games

2FarGone

8/22/19 1:32pm

RE: BYU: Managing to lose way more than their share of close rivalry games

Borg

8/22/19 1:34pm

Just so frustrating

Squirt

8/22/19 1:35pm

Not a close rivalry according to people on here because BYU can't win.

chitownboy

8/22/19 1:38pm

That's a ridiculously binary way of looking at it.

Indy Coug

8/22/19 1:40pm

Few of those are true rivalry games of the same magnitude as BYU UU (e.g., ASU vs UCLA as opposed to UCLA vs USC.

DrBYU

8/22/19 1:39pm

Maybe so, but if they play at least 20 out of 25 years there's enough data points

Indy Coug

8/22/19 1:42pm

yeah I get that, and it is ver interesting. I'm just curious about what the rankings would be if one were to

DrBYU

8/22/19 1:49pm

"I'll take Things That I Didn't Need Stats to Tell Me for 500, Alex."

NOCAL_YFAN

8/22/19 1:58pm

The law of averages must begin to smile down on us soon, no?

whirl

8/22/19 2:05pm

And that number is skewed by 7 games. Of the past 25, 18 have been won by

StarMan

8/22/19 2:15pm

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